Adjectives to Describe Moods

Adjectives to Describe Moods

Hello English learners! Improve your English vocabulary with today’s lesson. Here are 24 adjectives to describe moods. Here is the list:

1. Anxious
2. Affectionate
3. Calm
4. Careless
5. Cheerful
6. Despairing
7. Furious
8. Gloomy
9. Gregarious
10. Hopeful
11. Inspired
12. Introspective
13. Lonely
14. Melancholic
15. Nostalgic
16. Optimistic
17. Pessimistic
18. Pensive
19. Reckless
20. Reflective
21. Reserved
22. Sullen
23. Sluggish
24. Tense

Adjectives to describe MOODS

Anxious

Meaning: feeling worried because you expect something bad to happen.

• As the weather got worse Peter became more and more anxious about the crops.

Affectionate

Meaning: showing feelings or love for somebody.

• Sara is very affectionate towards her children. She is always hugging and kissing them.

Calm

Meaning: worriless and peaceful, without hurry or nervousness.

• Our boss is always calm under pressure.

Careless

Meaning: not paying much attention to what you are doing, which can cause damage or make mistakes.

• John is so careless. Look, he’s texting a friend while driving.

Adjectives to describe Moods

Cheerful

Meaning: being positive, happy, joyful.

• Samantha has been in a cheerful mood all day since her boyfriend proposed.

 

Despairing

Meaning: feeling down, hopeless.

• After his mother died, Sean seemed to be more and more despairing.

Furious

Meaning: extremely angry.

• Celia was furious when she found out that her brother had taken her car.

Gloomy

Meaning: feeling dark and pessimistic, hopeless, depressed.

• Sophia couldn’t help but feel gloomy when she got the medical test results.

Gregarious

Meaning: enjoying other people’s company, friendly, outgoing.

• George is always so gregarious and outgoing. He has a lot of friends.

Adjectives to describe MOODS

Hopeful

Meaning: full of hope, positive, optimistic.

• Ever since he won money in the lottery, Simon has become more hopeful about the future.

Inspired

Meaning: feeling excited and uplifted.

• Sandra felt so inspired to draw by the lake when she heard the weather forecast.

Introspective

Meaning: thinking a lot about your own feelings and ideas.

• Laura was an introspective person who enjoyed her own company.

Lonely

Meaning: feeling sad because you are alone and have no friends or company.

• So many old people are living alone today and most of them feel more or less lonely.

Melancholic

Meaning: feeling very sad or depressed.

• Robert was a bit melancholic and sad.

Nostalgic

Meaning: feeling unhappy when you remember some time in the past when you were happy.

• Most people feel nostalgic when they first move abroad.

Optimistic

Meaning: feeling positive, hopeful, emphasising the good side of a situation rather than the bad side.

• When the meeting ended, Mr Tompson felt rather optimistic about the project.

Pessimistic

Meaning: opposite of optimistic; tending to think about bad things rather than positive and good ones.

• After reading the newspapers, Paul felt very pessimistic about his candidate’s chances of winning the election.

Pensive

Meaning: thinking about something deeply and seriously.

• When she returned from Australia, Vera was often absent and pensive.

Reckless

Meaning: showing very little care about your actions.

• Brian tends to be a bit reckless, especially when it comes to money. 

Reflective

Meaning: spending lots of time in your head, thinking deeply and quietly.

• After the movie, she was in a reflective mood for quite some time.

Reserved

Meaning: not showing or talking much about your feelings.

• Ryan was quite a reserved, quiet man.

Sullen

Meaning: being in a bad mood and unwilling to talk.

• Jason was sitting with a sullen face and refused to say why he felt that way.

Sluggish

Meaning: having less energy than normal and therefore feeling kind of lazy.

• Bob couldn’t help but feel a bit sluggish and sleepy after dinner.

Tense

Meaning: unable to relax, worried and nervous.

• Saunders was usually very tense before exams.

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